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Daily News reported on Thursday a go-slow by workers at three KwaZulu-Natal mortuaries and writes that, unless a growing confrontation is defused, hold-ups loom in accessing the bodies for burial or cremation. Source: Latest News
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Marikana Commission lawyers make a fees killing
Sowetan reports that Marikana Commission of Inquiry lawyers were paid a whopping R16-million by Legal Aid SA for representing families of the victims of the August 2012 massacre. Source: Latest News
Mahikeng municipality hires more employees than it can afford, now 300 jobs at risk
Sowetan reports that the cash-strapped Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality (Mahikeng and surrounds) has employed more people than it can afford to pay and now more than 300 workers stand to lose their jobs. Source: Latest News
Dell launches information technology academy in SA
Dell Enterprise Solutions Group, the American information technology company, announced on Friday that it has launched the Dell Academy in SA. Source: Latest News
Sadtu blames Nene for the failure to reopen teacher training colleges
Mail & Guardian writes that contradictory stances by government leaders makes the potential revival of teacher colleges even harder to do than the task already is. Source: Latest News
NUM says ‘Vavi apologists’ targeting Rustenburg
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) National Organisers Forum on Friday said the Rustenburg platinum belt has been identified as the union’s “weakest link” and its operations there were being undermined by “apologists” for ousted Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Source: Latest News
Death of SA helicopter pilot in Zambia pilot reduces police rescue capability in KZN to zero
News24 reports that the death of SA Police Service (SAPS) helicopter pilot Mike O’Donnell has severely hampered the rescue capability of the police’s Air Wing in KwaZulu-Natal. Source: Latest News
Magistrates not prohibited from striking
Sowetan reports that, as he cleared an East London magistrate Nazeem Joemath of wrongdoing, Magistrate Lukas van der Schyff on Thursday found that there was no rule to the effect that magistrates could not go on strike. Source: Latest News
Numsa’s United Front is a snake with seven heads, says Cosatu’s S’dumo Dlamini
S’dumo Dlamini, president of labour federation Cosatu, has described the United Front, the civic umbrella entity of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), as a snake with seven heads. Source: Latest News
Gold Fields agrees to wage deal for South Deep with 21% increase over three years
Gold Fields has agreed a three-year wage deal at South Deep, giving employees an average 10% increase over the three-year period. Source: Latest News